Excerpt from Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1: A Study in Christian Liberalism Many books have been written in recent years on Clement of Alexandria. Some of them are so far final in character that they leave to the student of the present day little scope for labour within their own particular spheres. Dr Stahlin, in the Berlin edition of the Fathers, has given us the text of Clement's writings in what is likely to remain for many years its standard and accepted form. The edition of the Seventh Book of the Stromateis by the late Professors Hort and Mayor is a permanently valuable instance of the services which the learning of our ancient Universities can render to patristic study. M.Eugene de Faye's Clement d'Alexandrie and the late Dr Bigg's Bampton Lectures on The Christian Platonists of Alexandria will long retain their interest for all students of Clement, alike by their accurate learning and by their singular literary charm. Even in regard to the vexed question of Clements "Sources" the area within which new results are to be expected from further investigation may now be regarded as defined.

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